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I'm now staying somewhere else. But if necessary, I can still be reached by the communication system. [If Dylan wants to announce where they're living, he can. But Mr. Paranoid Bastard isn't about to publicly give a location.]

As an aside, does anyone here know how to play chess or any other strategy games that might be available? Are there any musicians from the ship?

[He very desperately needs to learn about the local culture. There must be more than "the Authorities are terrible people and want to render us impotent". Survival situations or not, these people have lived here for a very long time and must have something unique and exclusive to them. They're obviously not barbarians or savages.]

Also, do either of the pilots of the ships that have crashed need assistance?

[Nietzschean style proclamation of friendly interest. He wouldn't offer if he didn't like them.]

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[He just gets the most amused look at that. He had food waiting on him here, and he's willing to sketch things.] It seems you have no shortage of talents. You must have no shortage of perspective lovers vying for your attention.

[There will never be apologies for Rhade's bluntness, as much as they should be necessary sometimes, and he pushes one of his favored rooks forward.]

Though yes, it would be helpful. I have no problem with braving the wilderness and hopefully this unusual ecosystem has a greater chance of having it than just any random one.

[He breaks out laughing, bright and surprised. He does a king-side castle.]

Not really. I'm just more used to dealing with the challenges of pre-industrial societies than you spaceship types.

[This is both true and a complete lie; you do pick up a lot of skills in four-hundred-odd years of surviving on your own.]

You'll have to beg or bargain for the paper, I imagine, but I'd be happy to do it.

I mean more pertaining to the willingness to assist and be a host or render sketches of particular plants from memory. Though admittedly, even though my people were genetically engineered to be pioneers, I don't know that much about Earth plants.

Much of what's here- it's long gone before my time.

[His eyes flick as he goes over moves in his head, before just tending to his bishop.]

[He picks up his knight again, twirling it lightly between his fingers, pondering - his response, more than the game, despite fixing his stare on the board.]

Where I'm from...I don't. Have a lot of friends, for reasons that are mostly beyond my control. I'm self-sufficient enough here, and. It's nice, to be able to help people. Even when people are suspicious, it's just the situation, it's not me. And I can win people over, all I have to do is earn it.

That chance means a lot to me.

[He sets the knight down, finally, in danger of capture if it weren't guarded by Israel's bishop.]

I'm not accustomed to having a lot of friends outside of distant relations, but that's how my people are.

[He looks at the knight. It would be easy to take, but he has a habit of wanting the pawns to last the longest. To see how many of them he can make survive, while the other pieces take the vanguard. There's something gratifying when he can make a pawn take a king- they're capable of the same moves, it's only been decided one is more valuable than the other by its entourage.]

My captain is my friend.

[He thinks he still is. Despite everything, despite what Rhade was planning, he never stopped being his friend.]

He'd probably appreciate your idealism.

[He laughs lightly.]

I am not an idealist.

What do you consider yourself then? [Curiously.]

I'm someone who's learned the difference between doom and long odds.

Interesting way of phrasing it... and cryptic. [Says the man that's unusually blunt with his thoughts, and wraps the hidden ones so deeply sometimes they're extremely hard to read.

He uses the bishop to fortify his pawns, but also watching closely Daniel's preference as he still plays a game within a game.]

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